Survivors from a lost world - Nature reserves around Carrington Moss David Reeves Caveats -

I am not an ecologist, biologist, botanist, etc

Phots taken for recording rather than artistic purposes Shell pond

The Sinderland Brook corridor

Safeguarded land?

Sinderland green woods Hogswood covert SBI, NT Brookheys covert SBI, NT Moss covert SSSI, NT SBI, HIMOR

SSSI are the finest sites for wildlife and natural features in England, supporting many characteristic, rare and endangered species, habitats and natural features Natural England Ancient mixed woodland

Habitat of principal importance in UK Biodiversity Action Plan High biodiversity

Adela reamurella Cantharis decipiens Dog Rose Hogweed Perennial Rye-Grass Skullcap Aglaostigma fulvipes Cape Thread-moss Dog's Mercury Holly Phyllodrepa puberula Slender Mouse-tail Moss Agonum assimile Cephalozia bicuspidata Downy Birch Honeysuckle Pignut Soft Rush Chickweed Elaphrus cupreus Horse-Chestnut Plagiomnium undulatum Spear Thistle Amblystegium riparium Cleavers Elder Hybrid Oak Plagiothecium succulentum Stenus bimaculatus Amblystegium serpens Cock's-Foot Enchanter's-Nightshade Indian Balsam Pohlia carnea Stenus impressus Anaspis humeralis serratella Eriocrania subpurpurella Isopterygium elegans Polydesmus angustus Stigmella aurella Anaspis maculata Common Cord-moss Eriophyes avellanae Ivy Ramsons Swan's-neck Thyme-moss Ash Common Couch Eurhynchium swartzii Kuehneola uredinis Raspberry Sycamore Aspen Common Duckweed Eutrichapion vorax Lemna Red Campion Tachyporus obtusus Athous haemorrhoidalis Common Feather-moss False Oat-Grass Lesser Burdock Red Clover Tetragnatha extensa Barbula cylindrica Common Figwort Fern-leaved Hook-moss Lesser Celandine Reed Canary-Grass Tufted Hair-Grass Bedstraw Common Knapweed Field Horsetail Lesser Periwinkle Remote Sedge Tufted Thread-moss Beech Common Nettle Floating Sweet-Grass Lesteva longoelytrata Rhadinoceraea micans Vicia Birch Polypore Common Pincushion Foxglove Lithobius forficatus Rhingia campestris Wall Screw-moss Bird Cherry Common Ragwort Garlic Mustard Lunularia cruciata Rhinosimus planirostris Water Horsetail Bittersweet Common Water-Starwort Giant Fescue Marsh Horsetail Rhizomnium punctatum Water-Plantain Blackthorn Cow Parsley Gipsywort Marsh Marigold Rhizophagus dispar Water-Starwort Bluebell Crab Great Willowherb Melanotus villosus Rhododendron Water-Violet Brachythecium rivulare Creeping Buttercup Greater Periwinkle Mesembrina meridiana Rhynchostegium riparioides Wavy Bitter-Cress Brachythecium rutabulum Creeping Soft-Grass Greater Plantain Mugwort Ribwort Plantain Wavy Hair-Grass Bracken Creeping Thistle Greater Spearwort Nargus velox Rosebay Willowherb White Clover Bramble Crimson-tuber Thread-moss Green Oak Tortrix Nodding Bur-Marigold Rough Meadow-Grass White Dead-Nettle Branched Bur-Reed Cylindric Ditrichum Grey Nodding Thread-moss Rowan Wild Angelica Broad Buckler-Fern Cyperus Sedge Guelder-Rose Oniscus asellus Rush Wild Cherry Broad-Leaved Dock Dalopius marginatus Habrocerus capillaricornis Pale-fruited Thread-moss Russian Comfrey Wood Anemone Bud-headed Groove-moss Dandelion Hawthorn Pedunculate Oak Sallow Wood Dock Bulrush Dicranella staphylina Pellia epiphylla Sessile Oak Wood Horsetail Callicerus rigidicornis Dicranum tauricum Heart-leaved Spear-moss Pellucid Four-tooth Moss Silky Forklet-moss Wood-Sorrel Canadian Waterweed Dock Herb-Robert Pendulus Sedge Silver Birch Yellow Iris 180 plant species recorded in Brookheys since 1970 Most of the remaining ponds

Water-violets in Brookheys, old marl pit Last fragments of the original Moss

Heather in Birch Moss Conservation work Volunteers Removing invasives

Himalayan balsam

Rhododendron Himalayan balsam – the chain-reaction plant April – August is “balsam-bashing” time! Birch Moss Covert - heather regeneration Before After Pond maintenance Wildlife Tend to see signs of wildlife rather than wildlife itself….

Who lives here? Water vole? Who did that? Some birds of conservation concern recorded in Brookheys covert

C = Conservation concern P = Priority species Rdb = Red Data Book Fun fungus The end

Wild garlic in Sinderland green woods